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Tuesday, June 04, 2019 2:59:40 PM
You're right about the improv. I picture Letterman laughing harder at Colbert than at any of the others.
Colbert deserves an Emmy for this alone.....
Stephen Colbert's Conspiracy Theorist Character "Tuck Buckford" Needs a Podcast Immediately
https://www.gq.com/story/stephen-colbert-tuck-buckford-brain-fight
You're on notice, Alex Jones.
By Jay Willis
April 18, 2017
Noted right-wing radio host and delusional conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, a man who possesses the voice of Hulk Hogan and the logical reasoning ability of a mailbox, had to take some time off this week from truthering the Sandy Hook murders to wage a nasty child custody battle with his ex-wife.
Perhaps sensing that a court of law might feel some trepidation about the possibility of turning children over to, you know, a Sandy Hook truther, Jones’ lawyers cleverly asserted that he is merely a “performance artist” who is “playing a character.” Nothing to see here, folks!
The Internet, as the Internet is wont to do, had a field day with this nonsense, gleefully co-opting it as the excuse of choice for every profoundly unfortunate decision or bad take that, to their horror, is still preserved today on some kind of electronic medium. (Every insanely overwrought pre-intramural basketball game pump-up email I sent in college? Ahem. Performance art.)
However, Jones drew some earnest sympathy from a man who understands the hazards of portraying satirical right-wing characters in the media: Late Show host Stephen Colbert, who in solidarity with Jones showed a clip of one of his lesser-known alter egos: “Talk radio host Tuck Buckford.”
Colbert, clad in a bald eagle-adorned “USA” letterman’s jacket that I’ve already commissioned the GQ Style team to find and acquire for me as soon as possible, launched into “BRAIN FIGHT,” an extremely Jones-esque show in which the host very earnestly discusses the the insidious liberal plot to “tattoo Obama logos onto the skin of Christian babies.” Colbert, as Buckford, barely lasts five seconds before he starts cracking up.
It makes me want to FIGHT. Fight with my FISTS. My blood is on FIRE. My heart is a VOLCANO. It’s time to THROW A VIRGIN IN THERE. I am a SKELETON wrapped in ANGRY MEAT. I’m a WARRIOR. I’m a KING.
Jones and his tinfoil-hat ilk are genuinely tough to parody, since anyone shouting about loose change in their best Cookie Monster voice is pretty much indistinguishable from the original.
Still, Colbert’s effort is admirable, and if he ever gets tired of his current gig, it sounds like he’s got a surefire podcast idea all workshopped and ready to go.
Colbert deserves an Emmy for this alone.....
Stephen Colbert's Conspiracy Theorist Character "Tuck Buckford" Needs a Podcast Immediately
https://www.gq.com/story/stephen-colbert-tuck-buckford-brain-fight
You're on notice, Alex Jones.
By Jay Willis
April 18, 2017
Noted right-wing radio host and delusional conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, a man who possesses the voice of Hulk Hogan and the logical reasoning ability of a mailbox, had to take some time off this week from truthering the Sandy Hook murders to wage a nasty child custody battle with his ex-wife.
Perhaps sensing that a court of law might feel some trepidation about the possibility of turning children over to, you know, a Sandy Hook truther, Jones’ lawyers cleverly asserted that he is merely a “performance artist” who is “playing a character.” Nothing to see here, folks!
The Internet, as the Internet is wont to do, had a field day with this nonsense, gleefully co-opting it as the excuse of choice for every profoundly unfortunate decision or bad take that, to their horror, is still preserved today on some kind of electronic medium. (Every insanely overwrought pre-intramural basketball game pump-up email I sent in college? Ahem. Performance art.)
However, Jones drew some earnest sympathy from a man who understands the hazards of portraying satirical right-wing characters in the media: Late Show host Stephen Colbert, who in solidarity with Jones showed a clip of one of his lesser-known alter egos: “Talk radio host Tuck Buckford.”
Colbert, clad in a bald eagle-adorned “USA” letterman’s jacket that I’ve already commissioned the GQ Style team to find and acquire for me as soon as possible, launched into “BRAIN FIGHT,” an extremely Jones-esque show in which the host very earnestly discusses the the insidious liberal plot to “tattoo Obama logos onto the skin of Christian babies.” Colbert, as Buckford, barely lasts five seconds before he starts cracking up.
It makes me want to FIGHT. Fight with my FISTS. My blood is on FIRE. My heart is a VOLCANO. It’s time to THROW A VIRGIN IN THERE. I am a SKELETON wrapped in ANGRY MEAT. I’m a WARRIOR. I’m a KING.
Jones and his tinfoil-hat ilk are genuinely tough to parody, since anyone shouting about loose change in their best Cookie Monster voice is pretty much indistinguishable from the original.
Still, Colbert’s effort is admirable, and if he ever gets tired of his current gig, it sounds like he’s got a surefire podcast idea all workshopped and ready to go.
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